Mike Barron On Growing Up in Section 8, Getting Two Felonies & Making Millions Online | DSH #173

I'm a Section A baby.

If you guys don't know what that is,

it's like basically the government pays for you to f ⁇ ing survive.

You were about 30.

Yep.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty quick.

Five years, you became a millionaire?

Yeah.

Once you set the goal at 24, 25, five years.

I made a million dollars in my first year in business.

And what was that business?

Welcome back to the show, guys.

Digital Social Hour.

I'm your host, Sean Kelly.

Got an awesome guest for you guys today, Mike Barron.

What up, baby?

Y'all ready?

Y'all ready?

Got to bring the fire.

Dude, listen, I'm going to be, I'm a nice person, but I'm going to be.

This is going to be the best interview that we've done.

Sometimes you got to do that to get a medicine.

I'm just saying.

So, let's get it.

So talk to me about your comeback, man.

I know you grew up in Section 8.

I know that was tough on you.

Talk to me about that.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

So, you know, I'm a Section 8 baby.

If you guys don't know what that is,

it's like basically the government pays for you to survive.

Yeah.

You know, like

your rent's 100 bucks.

You get

government cheese, government assistance.

So my mom had me at 16 years old.

Single mom, no daddy.

You know, I grew up in the hood, grew up ghettos,

right?

I'm up.

I'm OCD, ADHD.

I'm, I'm,

you know, just a knucklehead kid, just, you know, just terrorizing the classrooms.

I exit elementary school.

You know, I become an athlete.

I play football.

I wrestle.

I go to high school.

So I'm 39 years old.

So I was born in 84.

And

at that time, you know,

I wanted to be rough.

I wanted to be a gangster.

My influences were Tupac and Biggie and,

you know, blood in, blood out, American me.

I wanted to be like that.

Yeah.

So by the time I'm walking to high school, you know, I'm a, I'm a two-time felon.

I'm, I'm, I'm rolling around with guns and robbing

jack.

Not, I'm not trying to, you know, that, that's not cool.

That, I'm not trying to glorify it, but I had a lot of problems growing up.

You know, um,

in sixth grade, I had like

top 3% lowest scores in the state tech.

I was f ⁇ ing up, man.

That's how, that's how I grew up.

Yeah.

And what was that life-changing moment for you where you were like, I need to get my together?

Yeah.

So, so, um,

you know,

I'm in corporate now.

I'm, I'm like 24, 25 years old.

And,

you know, Sean, I start, I start, I get hooked up on personal development.

You know, I get a book from my friend who was my coworker, Keisha,

how to win friends and influence people.

I read that book.

I'm like, dude, what, like, I need more of this shit.

I go to YouTube, how to become successful, how to become great, how to become a millionaire.

I find Eric Thomas.

Eric Thomas, you know, he got, he, you know, how, you know, when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

So I'm listening to that.

I, you know, I become religious on that.

Then I end up finding Grant Cardone, who I actually end up working with.

And I just, you know, I just,

I got, I got, I was doing at one point, man, and I, dad, you, you quick, bro.

We jumping in quick.

At one point, I was like,

I was doing more personal development than anybody in the city of San Diego, in the state.

Like, like, I was going to sleep on personal development.

Yeah, I was showering on personal development.

I turned my car into a university.

Everything in my area, you know, I was a loser, bro, in my 20s.

And, and, and by the time I got hooked up on personal development, I became so cheesy where I'm like,

how you doing, Mike?

Great.

How you doing?

Awesome.

And, and, and, and then I made a decision in my mid-20s.

I'm like, nah, this.

I'm not going to eat dirt no more.

Dog, I'm going to be great.

I'm going to become a multi-millionaire.

And, you know, we've been working on it ever since.

And what age did you get that first mill up?

That's a good question.

I'm looking at it.

I made a million dollars in

my first year in business.

That was 2015.

So you were about 30?

Yep.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty quick.

Five years you became a millionaire?

Yeah.

Once you set the goal at 24, 25, took you five years.

I made a million dollars in my first year in business.

And what was that business?

So

I used to build websites back in the day.

I used to be a dog breeder.

And my websites were like ranked on Google top two, top three.

So I used to get blown up.

Nice.

So I'm like, I'm sitting on this skill set that I have.

And I'm like,

I need to do something this sh ⁇ .

So I got laid off on my job, whatever.

I'll tell my wife, my wife, Diana, I'm like, nah, I ain't never going to go back to,

you know, like, like, no, no one could ever take the rug from me again.

So I'm going to do my, I'm going to do my deal, and I'm going to start my own business.

She's like, can you do that?

I'm like, yeah.

I was like, what do you think?

She's like, I support you.

So I started building websites.

And my websites,

in the very beginning, I was selling websites for like 50 bucks, 100 bucks, 200 bucks, 300 bucks.

And then later, you know, I started, I closed Conor McGregor that year.

How'd you close him?

I called him for a year.

You called him?

Yeah.

How'd you get his number?

So you can go to GoDaddy and do GoDaddy reverse search.

Yeah.

And then you'll find out if they're if they don't have it protected, you'll find out who the domain is registered to.

So

I found this name and this number.

The name

and the number was his manager.

So I called his ass for a f ⁇ ing year.

Wow.

I harassed him.

You know, audiatory you know his manager right yeah so i i'm doing that and i'm calling him nope not interested called him again mike like i told you last week i'm not interested

i kept i kept hitting him he was in orange county i'm in san diego yeah hey bro i'm gonna be in orange county next week man you want some donuts hey dude i'm gonna be in orange county in two weeks you guys want some coffee hey dude i'm gonna be in orange county you guys want some lunch I just kept tapping him over and over and over.

Every time there was a Connor event, I'd FaceTime him.

Hey, what's up, Audi?

Which is his manager.

Hey, man, dude, we're here for the Connor fight.

We're pumped up, man.

Hey, we wishing you the best.

But what I know is that every time I hit him, he would hit me back.

Even though I was getting a like a pause,

he would always hit me back.

So the data I got when I worked at Grants was that if you have a cell phone with the cat, you can always do business with him or her.

regardless it could take a day it could take a year it could take 10 years so i kept following up with him so my first year i signed connor mcgregor

we signed up Patrick Bedavid who's a big yeah we close we we did Patrick Bedavid's website we did PHP's website I just talked to his team two days ago wow in fact his number two just texted me this morning we signed up a solar city deal so yeah that's how I made my first meal building websites man and how did you get good building them just watching videos on YouTube

you know I'm I'm uh

Naturally, I'm artistic.

So I, you know,

you could be formally trained or you could, you know, go to school.

I, you know, I have what people will call the eye.

I had the eye for beauty.

So I, you know, I knew what was beautiful, what was aesthetic, and what wasn't.

Yeah.

Dog, I was silly and f.

I was doing Wix websites, drag and drop.

Wix.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Connor McGregor's website was like on Wix.

That's crazy.

You know what I'm saying?

So.

And you have, you got diagnosed with ADHD, right, at a young age.

Yep.

So do you think that helped you or do you think it was like a hindrance?

Nah, bro, it's a gift.

Yeah.

It's a fing gift.

Why do you think so?

It's a, you know, so like what society does, Sean, is like, he's hyper or he's compulsive or she's fing

ex.

You know, like, like,

let's just name this and say what you are because you're a little bit different.

Like, here, here, you know, here's 30 kids in the classroom and two

are hyperactive and two m are, you know, compulsive or they're different.

So let's, let's give them an appeal to like,

you know, calm them down, whatever.

So for me, you know,

in elementary school, I was so

OCD, ADHD.

I knew, you know,

I played video games.

So I played Mortal Kombat.

I played all, you know, all the RK games.

I knew every f ⁇ ing character and I knew every f ⁇ ing bio and realm.

I knew exactly like their moves I I dude I knew like there's 16 characters I knew every move

so I just took my ADHD and applied it towards towards that my dad told me too my dad told me when I was like

fifth grade he's like hey if you uh

took your talent and apply it apply that towards school you'd be a straight a student

So what I did, you know, today as a 39-year-old man is I took my OCD ADHD and I just applied that towards

business.

Nice.

You You know what I'm saying?

Like I'm obsessed with it.

I'm hyperactive still.

I remember they tried telling me I had it in like fourth grade.

They wanted to put me on meds.

Did they?

And the one thing I love about my mom is she said no to it.

Yeah.

And

I remember as a kid, I was like, oh, I'm so upset.

Like I wanted to be on those meds.

And it's like, they brainwash you, you know?

How old are you, man?

I'm 26.

Oh, you young as f, bro.

Yeah.

But no, they, they tried telling me just because I was like different, I guess.

Dog, listen, dude.

I remember being in first grade and I remember sitting down in the print, you know, with the principal and the school nurse, with the teacher, with my mom and my stepdad are like, you know, your son, like, like now they can't really push that on you.

It's like illegal now.

Oh, yeah.

They're, you know, you can't do that in California at least.

And they're like, you know, your son, he, he has these disorders.

And, you know what I'm saying?

Like.

Seven years old and they're self-diagnosing.

They're like diagnosing kids.

And I don't want to say nothing, but that's weird, bro.

Super weird.

It's like they're pushing it almost take take take this drug yeah seven yeah like like like that boy seven take drug though yeah so that way he can act normal they want you to fit in with everyone else so they give you drugs it's it's dumb as it's terrible it's horrible bro um so you basically manifested everything you you set out you believe in manifestation

okay okay so let's talk about that okay so this is what i know

so they go like this you know you got some big hitters you know showing up on your show they you know so they go like this thoughts are things okay so so sean this is what i know to be true here's some real game right here okay so so what i know to be true right now is that

everything starts off with a thought

okay so i don't believe that this little character right here that looks like you in this beautiful studio and that 30 5 000 camera and this beautiful desk that costs ten thousand dollars or more And this, I don't, I don't think,

I don't think none of this happened by chance.

You know, I'm checking to the wind hotel and they're like, sir, why are you here?

I have a podcast.

And they're like, oh, you're going to the blue.

They're talking about you.

None of this happened by chance.

So what I know is that I got a framework.

And it goes like, it goes like this.

Number one,

thoughts, thoughts, thoughts

create actions.

Thoughts create actions.

I want a burger.

I'm going to go get my in the car and go get a burger.

I want a podcast.

That's my thought.

I'm going to go get, I'm going to go start creating a podcast.

I want a boyfriend or a girlfriend.

I'm going to go on Tinder, whatever the f.

So thoughts, Sean, create actions.

Actions create results

and results shape your reality.

I'll give you an example.

Okay.

So my wife, my wife hit me right now.

She's like, hey, I know you got this big podcast right now.

Go crush it.

You know, go, like, go, go, give them, go give them your all.

So now, 14 years ago, I seen this Mexican girl at Circle Cam.

I was like,

you know, I like that shit.

Like, that was my thought.

Like, I like this girl.

That was my thought.

I took an action.

I went up to her, you know, like, I asked her out, got her phone number.

You like to go dance?

You like, you know, want to eat some good food?

I got some sort of result.

I met that girl and we hung out.

We had a good time i felt like i known her my whole life so that was my thought that was my action i got a result my reality is that we got two babies and one on the way and we've been together 14 years and we created a life that's you know it's pretty amazing

so so what what i'm saying is that

whether it's a studio or the wind's like the wind's like let me put this beautiful rug that costs ten thousand dollars or list

it all started with a thought

when did you think about creating the studio Filming here?

Yeah, when you're like, we're going to go just the wind and we're going to before I even started my show, I wanted to film here.

Okay, so you thought about it.

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

So, so watch this.

Let me get, let me go.

Let me give you a little bit more.

Once upon a time,

3,500 years ago, 5,000 years ago, there was a

in Cairo, Egypt.

And he, and, you know, it's hot as f.

And he, and he's like,

Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

I got it.

I got it.

We are going to put

the world's biggest structures that have ever been right here.

And we're going to put them in the shape of pyramids.

And we're going to bury the pharaohs in there.

And it's going to be the most amazing structures that man has ever seen.

Before the came up, it was a thought.

Right.

You feel what I'm saying?

Like, it was like there was one, like, dude, there was one guy or one woman, probably a guy.

I hate to say probably.

There was a one that said,

yeah, we're building this right here.

So, so, so, so, so my lead up to all this is that if that's real for you,

okay, like it's real for me, if you can control your thoughts, you can control your reality.

Thoughts create actions, actions create results, results shape reality.

There's people that we can talk to right now that's in college.

Hey, Amanda, how are you feeling about your test?

i don't know i'm good at math i'm good at history i'm good at x but i'm not really good at spanish

her thought is she's not good at spanish her action she's not good at spanish her result guess what it's not that her reality she's not good at spanish you got a c minus yeah so so what happened for me was i started lying to myself i started making up stories that just served me i'm a millioner i'm a billionaire i'm successful i have lamborghinis i live in an affluent area people love me i attract good people to my life.

I attract money.

I have at cause over my, I just, so it starts with a thought.

But, but, but, but you, you know what this is, though.

You're manifesting it.

It's, it's, it's manifestation, but it's principle.

That's how this world works.

That's how this, all this works.

Like, like, there, there ain't no

way we're in this beautiful million dollar, multi-million dollar facility.

If you didn't, you and your crew are not like,

yep, it's going to be blue light.

It's going to be

magic

or red Komodo, you know, camera, like, and we're gonna have monitors right here, and the guests are gonna be vetted, and they're gonna be big hitters, and we're gonna have this big,

you know,

40 feet, 50 feet.

It was a thought, yeah.

So, if you can control your thoughts, you can control your reality.

So, do you actually believe you could control all your thoughts?

Because there's a lot of people that say that's not possible.

Yeah, so

you know,

yes, but here's the deal.

It's like I go to the gym at 5 a.m.

And the beginning is a b,

you know, I get an alarm clock at 4.30.

You know, I can go back.

So as soon as you have a negative thought, you just, you just, you just, you just hush it and replace it with a positive thought and you take action.

You know, like, let's say like a, like a single, we're in Vegas, a lot of pretty people here.

Okay, some dudes out here, you know, looking good and they're single, right?

You know, they're at the club and,

you know, they want to go talk to the little pretty girl.

Okay.

What if she says no?

What if I get embarrassed?

What if she don't like me?

Dude, you got to put intention on everything.

I'm going to go there.

We're going to make a connection.

She's beautiful.

We're going to dance.

I'm going to buy her a drink.

I'm going to whatever.

So as soon as you have that voice of, I'm not sure,

or

I don't know, or

mate, you got to, you got to, you got to kick that shit and replace that with something that serves you.

Wow, that's powerful.

Cause a lot of people get those thoughts and they just eat at them.

Yeah, but the people that do that, they ain't worked on themselves yet.

Yeah, they don't take action.

They ain't worked themselves yet, dude.

You know, the guaranteed way to success is personal development.

That's a guaranteed way.

Okay, for me, it took 10 years.

Yeah.

Okay.

I done touched Inc.

5000, 332 fastest-growing companies in America.

I done bought, and I ain't trying to act all cute and cool.

I done bought six supercars in the last 18 months.

I'm about to go get an adventure door this weekend.

I done bought six Lamborghinis in the last five year and a half.

And, you know, that's so far from where I come from, right?

Yeah.

But the reason why I tell you that story is because

I had to work on this.

I had to, I had to feel good about me.

I had to love me.

And now, now where I'm at in my life is that it's expected.

I'm expected to walk into the wind and get greeted by the best

valet driver.

I'm expected to go to the front desk and know exactly everything about my situation and there's no stops.

I'm expected to get the, I'm expected to meet you and create an incredible, you know, connection.

I'm expected to go to the

buffet and get no weight.

Like,

I've made up a fake thing that's not true.

But what I'm saying is I had to work on myself.

So the guaranteed way to success is personal development.

And the quickest way is proximity.

So that want to come up, they got to go meet you.

They got to get to the source.

They got to rub your elbow.

They got to touch you.

So that's what I had to go through.

Because, you know, most people watching this ain't grow up rich.

So you said you grew up in a rough neighborhood and you talked about proximity.

Did you cut off all the people you grew up with?

Ooh.

Ooh.

Okay, so

28, 29 years old, I call Grant's office.

I'm already listening to Grant Cardoon.

I'm listening to s

five to six hours a day.

Yeah.

You know, all day long, seven days a week.

I call his podcast, right?

And I'm like, yo, you know, I just got laid off and I'm going to these interviews and I find myself having to

turn myself down because I'm scaring people.

Like, I'm too much.

I said, what do you recommend?

And he was like.

Don't turn it down, dude.

Get it in a vehicle, you know, that could channel that kind of energy.

So I went over there and, you know,

I got into that system and

I leveled the f up

really hard.

Right.

So when I came back, you know, I was only there for four months.

When it came back, I was kind of

a different person.

You know, I looked at the world differently.

So the reason why I tell you that story is just, you know, we're talking about what?

Development?

Yeah.

We're talking about proximity.

You know, a lot of people, Sean, they don't,

like, they, like,

a lot of people want these nights like okay watch this a hundred percent of people have uh

desire

casey what do you want he's out there i want to retire my mom miguel what do you want my boy right out there i want to i want a bentley hey henry video guy what do you want i want to be happy i want to live on the lake 100 of people have desire and only two percent of people have ambition it's almost like a gift it's like and so i was selling candy at a young age so so so i want to come up they want to make it you're like

you can do it, but you got to make a decision.

You got to, you know, like

that are really killing the game, they move in different than the rest of the world.

Yeah.

Okay.

What I say, I went to, I woke up at the gym at 5 a.m.

Dog, I ain't never,

I've been a night out my whole life.

It's a to wake up at 5 a.m.

5 a.m.

You know, you, you,

it's like you're, if you really want to get that,

then you're going to have to do the that nobody wants to do.

Right.

So, people gave no to your question.

So, I came back from Grants, I'm 29 years old, and

Sean, I'm, I'm, I'm uh,

I'm like

hanging, you know, my boys from junior high, it's DR,

it's Gonzo, it's Ermbo,

it's Justin T.

These are like my peoples.

We used to, you know, go to jail with each other, we used to fight with each other.

It's like, these are my peoples.

So, we become 19, 20, 21,

they all have wives.

The kids are all the same age.

And what I used to do with these was get faded, smoke some

rap, even though we don't rap.

We're freestyling in the garage.

The wives hang out with each other and cook some meat.

And, you know, now we're breaking up some carnesada.

So when I came back from Grant's office,

I came back and I was, I was, I was,

I was displaced.

I was like, so, so me, like, I'm good with people, man.

Yeah.

And I'm like, hey, Fabian, hey, hey, hey, Ernbo, hey, Gonzo, let's barbecue this weekend.

Hey, the Super Bowl's at my house.

Hey, the UOC fight.

Let's do.

I'm like the guy.

I'm like the glue

that just put it together.

I'm the connector.

That's just me, right?

So one time

I must have been back from Grants about four or five months.

And

I'm sitting down and I'm talking to my peoples.

And one of my boys was like, hey, Mike, chill.

Like, we ain't working right now.

And I'm like, I've got this website company.

And I'm, you know, I got this operation and we're about to sign up Connor McGregor and it's great.

Hey, Mike, chill.

Like,

I don't know what you're trying to do, bro, but

you don't have to impress us, bro.

We ain't working right now.

Like, chill.

And what happened was I was like so happy about creating.

And the

that are with were like, dude, stop.

And I was, I was out of place.

So

I end up

going to the backyard and I was just playing, you know, football with the kids.

It was eight o'clock at night.

My wife didn't see me for about an hour or two.

She's like, I've been looking for you.

Where you at?

And I'm like, no, I'm just ready to go.

I'm just ready to go.

You know, she's like, what, what?

Like, because they know I'm a wild ass party

and life of the party type.

And I was just like, yeah, I'm just ready to go.

So, so we, we,

I bounce and, you know, everyone's looking at me like, is everything okay?

I bounce.

So I'm telling my wife on the way home, I'm just like, I don't fit in here no more.

And it's not like those are bad.

It's like I changed.

Right.

And what I want to do was talk about creating.

What I want to do was have high-level conversations.

What I want to do was talk about influence fing humanity.

What I want to do was talk about getting fing paper.

What I want to talk about was just being the best versions of ourselves.

And,

you know, I'm smoking and I'm drinking, I'm doing rap for a decade, and now I'm on some different s ⁇ .

It just,

it don't, it, it didn't work.

So, you know, it was a weird, it was like,

it was like

I turned the page and the chapter and I was like,

man,

I'm going to let it go.

But either way, I'm going to be here.

And if my people need me,

I'm going to pull up and support.

But in a weird f ⁇ way, bro, it's like,

it was never the same.

Yeah, no.

It's tough, bro.

It is.

I ask every successful person that question because it's something they have to deal with.

So, so you hear that answer sometimes?

Yeah, most people end up having to cut them off because they're almost holding them back.

There's nothing vengeful against that person, but they need to move on, you know?

But it's fed up, though.

It's fed up because it grew off with it.

It's f ⁇ ed up because, like,

you know, now I start hearing some little snickers like,

oh, Mike do good.

Oh, Mike's successful now.

Oh, Mike don't pull up because he, you know, he got this.

And

it's not even that.

It's not, it's, it's, it's definitely not that.

And,

you know, it's, it's like what I know is

that if you want to get to the next, like right now where I'm at, you know, you know, I'm touching eight figures.

I know I have to shed something or get something up to get the next.

And at that

point that I just, you know, described, I had to give up hanging out with the homies, smoking, drinking just to get to the next.

And

it hurts, man.

Yeah, it hurts.

And I had a vision too.

I had a vision.

So I live in a multi-minute house.

You know, my life is pretty good.

You know, I had a vision where

I'm like, okay, I live in the nicest.

You said you've not been to San Diego?

Haven't.

You know about La Jolla?

Heard of it.

Okay, so La Jolla is like the most luxurious spot in the city.

So, you know, I already own the most beautiful home in Mount Seldan, which is in La Jolla.

Yeah.

So I got a vision where

I'm 39,

43 now, living in this house, and I bring back DR

and Gonzo and Ernbo and Justin Teague, and

I spoil them.

But I also have a vision where I'm so far removed

where it's like, who the f is this guy?

But like,

that was, you know, I just,

I was like,

I wanna, I wanna, like, okay, so we doing this.

I want to, I want to go be a representation for our group.

And let me go into the wilderness.

Let me go chop down trees and go create.

And, and, and we're going to reconvene.

Yeah.

But it's, yeah.

No, it's, it's wild.

It's something we got to deal with, but got to move on and evolve, man.

Like you said, you got to give up something to get to the next level.

You have to, man.

Yeah.

And sometimes it's your old childhood best friends, but that's what life's about, I guess, if you want to level up.

Yeah.

I saw you got pulled over by the cops on your social media in Lambo.

Six cops pulled you over.

What happened?

You know, you know, you know, you know,

so, Sean, for me is like, when I say I walked out of the high school, two felonies, I was on some gangster type shit, you know?

And

I've always

had a chip on my shoulder where, like, I don't belong here.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, I got this, I carry this f ⁇ ing.

So, so, you know, like,

in Crock Middle School, I was like, Mr.

Poplar, class clown, your book,

everybody loves me.

And I was terrorizing classrooms.

Instead of going to Madison High School, where I'm supposed to go feed into, my parents are like, nah, you're too bad.

Go to UC high school.

Go with

the surfer kids.

I didn't fit in with the surfer kids.

I didn't like the surfer kids.

I wanted to be a street kid.

So I went here and I'm like, okay, nobody likes me.

I'm not as popular as I was.

And I'm like you know what I don't give a y'all gonna like me respect me regardless

so when I went to that high school I used to pull up with my thug ass friends to the high school and I'm just like yeah we taking over this whole like like the house party we taking over I'm pulling up 20 deep with you know some some some street guys right

so I so so with that I've carried

I like

you know, I was scared to go in Lou Vuitton.

I was scared of go to Gucci.

I was scared of walking Lamborghini.

I used to go to La Jolla

and Del Mar like seeing these mansions.

I'm like, man, these.

They're not cool people like me.

They're not good people like.

So I've always,

I've had this,

I'm like Robin Hood.

And Robin Hood says, take from the rich and give to the poor.

And I don't give a f.

I'm Robin Hood.

I would take information from the rich and give to the poor.

So I still, to this day, like, dog.

I woke up to this, you know, it's nothing.

I woke up

by 2 a.m.

this morning, I already got a wire for $30,000, $27,000.

Wow.

And I'll f ⁇ around and go get another $27,000 before five o'clock.

And I'll do it again tomorrow.

Like, I'm out here printing money.

I'm going to keep it real.

But at the same time, I've always felt

like

either an underdog or a cat that has a rock on a shoulder.

And I'm going to answer your question.

So I go, you know, I bought these Lamborghinis.

Yeah.

So I get a VIP to the Lamborghini joint.

You know,

I'm here drinking the champagne, eating the hors d'oeuvres.

Somehow, some way I make my my way out to the valet.

Sir, what do you do?

Sir, nice car, sir.

I'm like, bro, don't call me f ⁇ or, bro.

Hey, so what, so what, how, how do you be doing what you're doing?

I said, listen, come here, man.

It's three valet guys.

I mean, La Jolla.

I said, let me tell you some, bro.

Don't get it fed up.

The only difference between these

and you and I is that, and I, and I ain't going to my.

I always,

like, I'm not going to go talk to the that's worth a hundred million.

And and, and, and I will, because I'm good, because I'm I'm just I'm a chameleon like that Yeah, I'm gonna go talk to the valet drivers and go raise them up

So when I got pulled over by the police to answer your question

I'm just like

Yeah, you know, I'm a good person today, you know, I don't beat my kids and you know, I've been with my wife 14 years and

you know

You know, I don't do no dr I don't snort no in my nose.

I'm you know, I try to be a decent human being.

Yeah.

And I said, I said, man, even still then, these,

you know, got

$500,000, and they still want $500,000 a car.

They still want to pull my ass over.

So I still got that

chip on my shoulder.

Like,

I'm just,

I'm still from the dirt.

You started recording it.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

So I'm just like, it's what it is.

But, you know, but it's like how you handle it, which is different.

You know, I ain't pissed off and doing.

Yeah, you stayed calm.

Yeah,

I use my communication now because I'm really skilled now.

Yeah.

What they got you for, speeding?

Nah, these get me for these are like

just see me in the driveway and I get pulled over and they're just like oh, you were in the driveway?

Yeah,

I'm in the parking lot and they're like, hey,

show me registration.

And I'm just like,

okay, for what?

And they're just like, yeah, you know.

It's a weirdo, bro.

It's almost like reverse racism.

Like, like, got the jealousy.

Yeah,

some, but you know, that, you know, you know,

there's good cops and there's bad cops, but they got to stop that.

Right.

You're just making society hate you.

Like, for sure.

I'm just in the parking lot doing nothing, filming content.

That's why.

Let me see your registration.

Like, bro, get the out of my face for a fucking way.

Mike, what are you working on next, man?

And where can people find you?

Okay, so

next, what I'm working on is this.

So I have 100 people on my team, give or take, depending on the week.

My main thing is Mike Barron's Closure Academy.

So I'm an internet guy.

Right now, I'm acquiring companies.

I just took over a dog training business.

I'm a 50% equity owner.

I just took over a fitness business.

I'm a 50% equity owner.

So I'm taking my systems and my processes and putting them to different businesses.

Nice.

I'm opening up an office in LA in two weeks.

And

I'm creating a sales unit.

I got some of my bros out here.

I'm opening up an office in Las Vegas between now and the end of the year.

And then I'm opening up an office in Miami, Q1 2024.

So I'm just expanding.

Nice.

I'm just growing.

And where can people find me?

Follow me on Instagram, theMikeBaron1.

I got some jokes.

I got some annoying content to get your attention, but I'm a decent person.

You are, man.

I think you are.

I think you're real.

I like that about you.

Thank you, man.

Thanks for watching, guys.

That was a great episode.

Thanks for coming on, Mike.

And uh, hope to have you back on one day.

All right, peace.